Alex Spillius is The Daily Telegraph's Washington Correspondent.

Foreign bodies and passing fancies

Mike Huckabee has reaffirmed his status as a frontrunner by writing an article outlining his foreign policy in the Foreign Affairs Journal. Usually these articles pass off with little notice, but not for (former) Pastor Huckabee's rival Mitt Romney, who has taken exception to his rival's criticism of George W Bush. Disloyal, verging on unpatriotic, said Mr Romney.

Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee have clashed over foreign policy

He failed to attack the minister on his real foreign policy weakness: he doesn't have one, or didn't until he started shooting up the polls faster than a Shahab-3 rocket. Could this be because as a former state governor himself, Mr Romney is something of a newcomer to foreign matters too?

If Dennis Kucinich fails to win the Democratic nomination, I say if because voting has not started yet, he will have the consolation of knowing the political world is enamoured of his English bride Elizabeth. As Joe Biden said, 'the thing I like most about your campaign Dennis is your wife'. A recent interview with the couple in the Washington Post [December 5] revealed that she had her admirers before the presidential campaign thrust her into a corner of the national spotlight.

Mr and Mrs Kucinich (aged 61 and 30 respectively) were dining in a DC restaurant when a passer-by burst in and declared Elizabeth was the most beautiful women he had ever seen. Are you doing anything tonight, he asked? Yes, came the reply, I am having dinner with my husband.Â The Ohio Congressman however took no offence.Â He is not only a lucky man but a modest one.